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ANTHROPOID

By Sean ELLIS

KARLOVY VARY INT'L FILM FESTIVAL - as FEST

Thriller - Completed 2015

Two soldiers from Czechoslovakia’s army-in-exile are parachuted into their homeland with a daring assignment, codename: ANTHROPOID - to assassinate the man many saw as Hitler’s natural successor. An extraordinary story of a remarkable operation and these unsung heroes of WWII.

- Year of production
- 2015
- Genres
- Thriller, Drama
- Countries
- CZECH REPUBLIC, FRANCE, UNITED KINGDOM
- Languages
- CZECH, ENGLISH
- Duration
- 120 mn
- Director(s)
- Sean ELLIS
- Writer(s)
- Sean ELLIS, Anthony FREWIN
- Cast
- Jamie DORNAN, Cillian MURPHY, Toby JONES, Charlotte LE BON, Bill MILNER, Anna GEISLEROVA, Harry LLOYD
- ISAN
- 0000-0004-751A-0000-C-0000-0000-1
- EIDR
- 10.5240/F6AE-8269-FDED-AF2D-4EC1-N
- Producer(s)
- Mickey LIDDELL (LD Entertainment), Peter SHILAIMON (LD Entertainment)
- Synopsis
- In 1941, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich was appointed by Hitler as leader of the occupying Nazi forces in Czechoslovakia.
  
  Nicknamed “The Butcher of Prague”, his meteoric rise through the SS ranks placed him at the head of the security forces and he was the Reich’s number 3 after Hitler and Himmler. His reign of terror and brutal crackdown of the Czech resistance movement led Allied authorities in London to hatch a top-secret mission that would change history.
  
  Trained by British forces, two soldiers from Czechoslovakia’s army-in-exile would be parachuted into their homeland with a daring assignment, codename: ANTHROPOID - to assassinate the man many saw as Hitler’s natural successor.
  
  From Sean Ellis, the award-winning director of Metro Manila, ANTHROPOID is a thrilling true story of the extraordinary courage and heroism of two men, who against overwhelming odds, stood tall and held fast in the face of tyranny.
- Beginning of shooting
- Jul 13, 2015